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Services for individuals with disabilities. Includes information and referral, service coordination, independent living skills training, individual and system advocacy, equipment loan and rental, equipment repair, barrier removal consultations and grants, peer mentoring, and disability awareness training. Personal assistant referral and management program.

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Medical Equipment/Supplies
Assistive Technology Information
Disease/Disability Registries
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
Home Barrier Evaluation/Removal Services
Blind Service staff provide a variety of services to individuals who are blind, visually impaired or Deaf/Blind to assist them in achieving self-sufficiency through obtaining competitive employment. Services include: - Vocational rehabilitation. - Rehabilitation Instructors providing instruction in independent living skills, communication strategies, Braille, adaptive equipment, assistive technology, and health and wellness. - Orientation and Mobility Instructors providing instruction in skills, methods, and techniques to independently travel safely and effectively in various surroundings. - Rehabilitation Counselors and Coordinators provide a wide variety of services necessary to assist the individual in obtaining their employment outcome goal. - Blind Services manages the Older Individual Blind Grant funds allocated to community agencies which provide services to individuals age 55 or older whose severe visual impairment makes competitive employment difficult to obtain but for whom independent living goals are feasible. - The Business Enterprise Program for the Blind provides business opportunities for individuals who are legally blind to manage vending facilities, including vending, gift shops, snack bars, and cafeterias.

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Orientation and Mobility Training
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Blind Service staff provide a variety of services to individuals who are blind, visually impaired or Deaf/Blind to assist them in achieving self-sufficiency through obtaining competitive employment. Services include: - Vocational rehabilitation. - Rehabilitation Instructors providing instruction in independent living skills, communication strategies, Braille, adaptive equipment, assistive technology, and health and wellness. - Orientation and Mobility Instructors providing instruction in skills, methods, and techniques to independently travel safely and effectively in various surroundings. - Rehabilitation Counselors and Coordinators provide a wide variety of services necessary to assist the individual in obtaining their employment outcome goal. - Blind Services manages the Older Individual Blind Grant funds allocated to community agencies which provide services to individuals age 55 or older whose severe visual impairment makes competitive employment difficult to obtain but for whom independent living goals are feasible. - The Business Enterprise Program for the Blind provides business opportunities for individuals who are legally blind to manage vending facilities, including vending, gift shops, snack bars, and cafeterias.

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Orientation and Mobility Training
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Work skills through community volunteerism, community utilization, shopping, library, banking, etc. Communication skills, decision making/personal choices, domestic skill training, self care skills and behavioral control.
Easter Seals Midwest helps individuals with developmental disabilities, including autism and their families address life's challenges and achieve personal goals through workshops and community living support.
Community Integration: Provides opportunities during the day to increase independence and participate in the community by providing training in work, social/recreational and living skills.
Provides independent living skills instruction.
Program that uses a comprehensive approach designed to increase independence for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Teaches social skills, money/budgeting, basic safety and survival skills, self-care, computer skills, and much more.
Community Integration: Provides opportunities during the day to increase independence and participate in the community by providing training in work, social/recreational and living skills.
Assists adults with developmental disabilities to help build skills to live independently such as menu planning, laundry, cleaning, budgeting and bill payment strategies, and more.
Promotes independent living and works to enhance the quality of life for persons with disabilities and seniors by empowering them to control and direct their lives and thus participate actively and independently in society.

Offers a program supporting young adults ages of 14-26 to help them as they transition from the child welfare system to adulthood without permanent placement, while establishing a safe, nurturing, enduring relationship with ILS staff.

Provides assistance with regaining or maintaining independence in the home and community. Primarily serves those who, due to advanced age or secondary disability, do not wish to obtain paid employment. Rehabilitation teachers travel throughout the state to assist with learning simple techniques to complete everyday tasks such as marking canned goods when a person can no longer read the labels, dialing the telephone, using the microwave or oven, identifying clothing and medications, getting around in the community safely, obtaining newspaper reading programs, and much more.

Provides independent living skills and activities for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Also offers support and advocacy for families and to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent living and employment skills to the developmentally disabled.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Everlasting Home Healthcare, L.L.C. prioritizes health, safety, personal goals, and promotes positive community interaction for individuals with disabilities. Staff work one-on-one with children and adults with intellectual disabilities to help them achieve their own goals of independence. Services may include learning how to cook, clean, go grocery shopping, be safe in their community, manage their checkbook, or communication skills.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Social Skills Training
Day habilitation includes classes and activities to help individuals optimize their personal and social competency to live successfully in the community.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Social Skills Training
Developmental Disabilities Activity Centers
Provides person-centered services directed toward Supported Community Living and self-advocacy training. Training in independent living skills: self-care, social skills, home maintenance/ housekeeping, and community access for individuals with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury and chronic mental illness.

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Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

Services

Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

Services

Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Provides assistance to people with disabilities to enable them to live independently in the community. Program support with budgeting, advocacy, shopping, household planning, medical appointments, recreation, and paperwork.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Everlasting Home Healthcare, L.L.C. prioritizes health, safety, personal goals, and promotes positive community interaction for individuals with disabilities. Staff work one-on-one with children and adults with intellectual disabilities to help them achieve their own goals of independence. Services may include learning how to cook, clean, go grocery shopping, be safe in their community, manage their checkbook, or communication skills.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Social Skills Training
Training Advancement Skills in the Community provides supportive services for people with disabilities who are living in their own apartments/homes. Support services available include, but are not limited to: medication management, transportation, meal planning, and budgeting. Trainings for the use of community resources, home and community safety, and social skills are also available. The agency can provide assistance for up to 24 hours/day.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Social Skills Training
Disability Related Transportation
Medication Information/Management